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Ende, a mining engineer who served as an archconservative Deputy in the Reichstag in the last days of the Weimar Republic, joined Salzgitter in 1941, when it was still known as Reichswerke Hermann Goring. He ran its mining operations in Germany and in Nazi-occupied lands. In 1950 he was picked by Bonn to revitalize what the war had left to Salzgitter: a ragged collection of steelmaking plants, largely dismantled, built around some low-grade ore mines in northern Germany. Despite the many problems, Ende opened new mines, modernized the ore processing, put up steel mills, branched into oil drilling...
Spins & Raves. Despite his position as resident brain-truster for the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Goethe was still a deeply disordered man. He had recovered from a near nervous breakdown, apparently brought on by an early wallow in romantic agonizing in which he alternately "melted and raved" like his hero Werther. The routine of official duties had steadied him. He had studied science and accepted the soothing ministrations (thought to be platonic) of an older woman named Charlotte von Stein. But she had encouraged him to write only fanciful verse that had nothing to do with life or the natural...
...with kind words. "You never heard such flattery." said one witness at the first meeting. Over dinner in the Palais Schaumburg's chandeliered Grosse Kabinettssaal, Rusk softened Adenauer with long reminiscences of his graduate student days in Berlin 30 years ago, of tours in the Rhineland, of the Weimar era. As the wine and champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast U.S.-West German friendship, then turned to the old Chancellor with the ultimate and justified compliment. Seldom in a lifetime, said Rusk, did one have the opportunity to meet such a "historic personality." Next morning, in Adenauer...
Died. Hans Luther, 83, astute onetime Weimar Republic liberal statesman, a chubby Berliner who as Finance Minister halted chaotic post-World War I inflation and as Chancellor (1925-26) put Germany's signature on the futile peace-seeking Locarno Pact, who agreed in 1933 to serve the Nazis as Ambassador to the U.S., was recalled in 1937 and lived quietly on his Bavarian farm until the Nazis finally fell; in DÜsseldorf...
...collection that writers publish when they haven't written anything), he makes most of the familiar complaints. The intellectual is homeless; the poet is campus-bound; today's grammar-school education is flaccid; the American is merely a well-trained product buyer who knows, when in Weimar, "how to buy a Weimaraner." JarrelFs lectern jokes are rather good ("People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks"), but his lamentations over the mass culture seem conventional and perfunctory, the kind of thing one serves up so that undergraduates can practice their...